taking this to hear, how would one ever act again?… and yet, there is a truth embedded here…

The essential point is that every disclosure is also a concealment. Every closing down of potential into an actuality – itself a necessary, even fruitful step – is by the same token a limiting of reality to what has been selected. If it had not been selected, one might have discovered something immensely larger within that field of potential – now forever narrowed to what it is we think we clearly know. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)